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News

Bioweapons treaty in disarray as US blocks plans for verification p675

Declan Butler

doi:10.1038/414675a

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Nobel officials recoil from expenses offer p676

David Cyranoski

doi:10.1038/414676a

Mathematicians poised for major funding boost p676

Erica Klarreich

doi:10.1038/414676b

Trial halted after gene shows up in semen p677

Nell Boyce

doi:10.1038/414677a

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Need for vaccine stocks questioned p677

Erika Check

doi:10.1038/414677b

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Wellcome bid sees Crick archive return home p678

Alison Abbott and Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/414678a

Jodrell Bank survives shake-up of UK astronomy p678

David Adam

doi:10.1038/414678b

Partners' anger mounts over NASA plans for space station p679

Tony Reichhardt

doi:10.1038/414679a

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Europe's Mars mission to pay out for Beagle lander p679

Sally Goodman

doi:10.1038/414679b

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news in brief p680

doi:10.1038/414680a

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news feature

Which way to energy utopia? p682

The vehicles of the future will almost certainly be powered by hydrogen. But no one is sure exactly how to get drivers to kick their fossil-fuel habit. Mark Schrope weighs up the options.

Mark Schrope

doi:10.1038/414682a

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The curtain falls p685

Theatre seemed the ideal way for US bioprospectors working in Mexico to tell local people about their work. But did the plays distract attention from the involvement of commercial interests? Rex Dalton reports.

Rex Dalton

doi:10.1038/414685a

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Correspondence

Crops grown on set-aside land bring wild birds back to the fields p687

Monitoring is under way, and results so far are promising.

Chris Stoate and Dave Parish

doi:10.1038/414687a

Schemes are monitored and effective in the UK p687

Peter D. Carey

doi:10.1038/414687b

War: no time for dissent p687

Arno Arrak

doi:10.1038/414687c

Church backing depends on ethical use of animals p687

Archbishop Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, Don Maurizio Calipari and Marialuisa Lavitrano

doi:10.1038/414687d

Book Reviews

Out of thin air p689

Towards an understanding of our responses to high altitude.

Sue Jackson reviews High Altitude: An Exploration of Human Adaptation

doi:10.1038/414689a

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Lifting the curtain on the Nobels p690

Aant Elzinga reviews The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science by Robert Marc Friedman

doi:10.1038/414690a

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Sex appeal of a musical insect p691

Marlene Zuk reviews Katydids and Bush-Crickets: Reproductive Behavior and Evolution of the Tettigoniidae by Darryl T. Gwynne

doi:10.1038/414691a

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A turn-up for worms p691

doi:10.1038/414691b

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Science in culture p692

Martin Kemp reviews

doi:10.1038/414692a

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concepts

mRNA readout at 40 p693

John F. Atkins and Raymond F. Gesteland

doi:10.1038/414693a

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News and Views

Waving goodbye to measles p695

An innovative way of analysing statistics on measles incidence in England and Wales since 1944 reveals recurring waves of infection originating in large cities. The information can guide strategies for preventing the disease.

Peter M. Strebel and Stephen L. Cochi

doi:10.1038/414695a

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High-temperature superconductivity: Charged with smuggling heat p696

Good conductors of heat are usually good at conducting electricity. So the discovery that electrons in a superconductor can carry an unauthorized amount of heat at low temperatures raises many questions.

Kamran Behnia

doi:10.1038/414696a

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100 and 50 years ago p697

doi:10.1038/414697a

Biomaterials: Sacrificial bonds heal bone p699

The toughness of bone is usually attributed to its collagen, but how does it work? New evidence shows that molecular bonds can temporarily sacrifice themselves to absorb impacts.

John Currey

doi:10.1038/414699a

Space physics: Rhythms of the auroral dance p700

Earlier this year, the four satellites of the Cluster mission passed through part of the electric circuit that causes aurorae. Their observations support the view that intense aurorae form in regions largely devoid of electrons.

Patrick T. Newell

doi:10.1038/414700a

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Immunology: Bug detectors p701

Insects and mammals are thought to have similar 'innate' immune responses to infectious microorganisms. But there are differences, and even more now emerge from studies of how insects detect bacteria.

Tsuneyasu Kaisho and Shizuo Akira

doi:10.1038/414701a

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Chemistry: An end to the protection racket p703

To modify a specific site on a molecule that has several similar sites, organic chemists have had to use cumbersome 'protecting groups'. New peptide catalysts with remarkable selectivities offer a protection-free alternative.

David Gani

doi:10.1038/414703a

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Medicine: Short cut to disease genes p705

There are thousands of inherited human diseases. For the most part, the genes that are mutated in these diseases are unknown. But a new approach could save time and effort in identifying the genes responsible.

Alan F. Wright and Veronica Van Heyningen

doi:10.1038/414705a

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Daedalus: Reduced bandwidth p706

David Jones

doi:10.1038/414706a

Brief Communications

Laterality in tool manufacture by crows p707

Neural processing and not ecological factors may influence 'handedness' in these birds.

Gavin R. Hunt, Michael C. Corballis and Russell D. Gray

doi:10.1038/414707a

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Light emission: A temperature-tunable random laser p708

Diederik S. Wiersma and Stefano Cavalieri

doi:10.1038/414708a

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Seed development (Communication arising): Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis p709

Dolf Weijers, Niko Geldner, Remko Offringa and Gerd Jürgens

doi:10.1038/414709a

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Seed development (Communication arising): Early paternal gene activity in Arabidopsis p710

Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, Ramamurthy Baskar and Ueli Grossniklaus

doi:10.1038/414710a

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correction: Night-time predation by Steller sea lions p710

doi:10.1038/414710b

correction: Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery p710

doi:10.1038/414710c

correction: Peptide antibiotics in mast cells of fish p710

doi:10.1038/414710d

erratum: Nitrate flux in the Mississippi River p710

doi:10.1038/414710e

Articles

Breakdown of Fermi-liquid theory in a copper-oxide superconductor p711

R. W. Hill, Cyril Proust, Louis Taillefer, P. Fournier and R. L. Greene

doi:10.1038/414711a

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Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics p716

B. T. Grenfell, O. N. Bjørnstad and J. Kappey

doi:10.1038/414716a

Abstract | Full Text | PDF (556K) | Supplementary information